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Agreement of co-investors often contain terms of distribution the balance of power on the board of directors, determining the amount and procedure for election of directors, representing the interests of certain shareholders, various restrictions on the purchase and sale of shares, the special conditions of decision-making meeting of the shareholders and board of directors, restrictions on free shareholder vote at a general meeting of shareholders and others. As a striking example of shareholders ‘agreements of co-investors can be reduced shareholders’ agreement of such large companies as JSC “VimpelCom (Beeline) and Telenor and Altimo (“Alfa Group”), where under the agreement, each shareholder may nominate a board of four, with one in four from each party must be an independent director, and one can be nominated Telenor only with the consent of Altimo; OJSC “Wimm-Bill-Dann”, which sets out the obligation for parties to provide the majority of independent members on the board of directors of the company, AFK “Sistema” and Deutsche Telekom, where Deutsche Telekom in exchange for a guarantee of two seats on the board Directors must, within 6 months after the IPO not to sell its shares in OAO “MTS”, OJSC “MegFon”, where the Swedish law was a raised a quorum of 75% of the vote to decide the general shareholders’ meetings, OAO “Power Machines” which enshrined the condition to provide participants the preemptive right to repurchase the shares sold by the other party to it 2. According to Article 32.1 of the Federal Law of December 26, 1995 N 208-FZ “On Joint Stock Companies ‘shareholders’ agreement drawn up in writing in the form of a document signed by the parties to the agreement and binding on all shareholders of the signatories, is to respect all shares held by the side of the agreement, but agreement can not justify recognition of decisions of the company to void the agreement can not be prescribed the duty of shareholders vote as directed by management bodies, in respect of shares which an agreement 3. The agreement may provide for the coordination of various actions to manage the joint-stock company measures of civil liability for failure and / or improper execution of the agreement, the obligation of shareholders to vote a certain way, agree with the option of voting by other shareholders, dispose of or acquire shares at a predetermined fixed price, or, alternatively, to abstain from alienation of shares to certain circumstances. This article was accepted, when the institution shareholders agreements have already been widely distributed, but had no legislative fix, and because the Russian law and practice have not admitted the existence of shareholders agreements in their Western sense, these changes the existing law was a legislative framework for the conclusion of shareholder agreements.

Like a rare bird will fly to the middle of the Dnieper, and a rare businessman boasts that before opening his firm had serious legal training of future business, that is carefully designed economic projects contracts, pre-stocked throughout the compulsory internal documentation, etc. This is understandable (after all, starting a business – a search for resources and customers), but can have serious consequences. If large companies can afford to qualified legal services business, get a team of strong-house counsel, small firms often bypassed "on their own." Are engaged in the development of drawing contracts or download samples of typical documents of the Internet, but HR outsourcing (work contracts, books) in many companies are accountants or secretaries. There is some truth: once the state – is additional costs, and as a consequence, less profit. Indeed, why pay salary as a lawyer, equipped and maintained his job if he and all the cases, then – check out a few documents per month. If we there was a difficulty, you can always seek legal advice in a law firm. However, for the prevention security businesses need someone to look after the legal aspect of the firm. In such cases it makes sense to order subscription legal support for business in law firms: if there is a legal issue (for example, the contractor must verify the proposed agreement), the lawyer will come and help.

But this option is not a panacea. It often hosts business are turning to a lawyer only on those issues, which are themselves considered important. How many entrepreneurs "little things" pass! Here can help this relatively new form of legal assistance as a legal audit, which is an independent audit firm's documentation for compliance with the law of its business operations and minimize risks. The benefit of this legal services Enterprise difficult to understand. The company enters into contracts, increases the state or, alternatively, reduce staff, pays taxes. Gradually accumulates in the office of a large number of documents. Therefore, a prudent entrepreneur must be sure that there are no lapses in them, and as a consequence, no fine be imposed if the firm unannounced inspections of state authorities, whether there will be trouble with the contractor for negligence in signing the contract, do not whether correct form of economic and labor contracts. And then it is to invite a law firm that lawyers have checked all the documentation (or any of its segment) and found the error before they will find someone inspection and would advise that you can improve in legal terms.